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A tough search for talent 难觅英才 Oct 29th 2009 | OTTAWA, PARIS AND SYDNEY From The Economist print edition In many rich countries, grooming young bureaucrats for a changing world is a struggle for their would-be bosses 在许多发达国家的政府，官僚们正头疼于怎样招徕青年才俊来应对日益多变的世界 AGED 25 and armed with a master’s degree in water management, Andrew Reeves has the very mix of youth and green-mindedness that many governments claim to need. Yet when he attended a Canadian government job fair in Toronto this autumn, he left after 20 minutes without handing out a single résumé. 安德鲁.里夫斯，25岁，用水管理硕士，年轻，没城府，正是许多政府所需要的。但今年秋天他在多伦多参加加拿大政府的招聘会时，只呆了20分钟，一封简历也没交就撤了。 He queued in front of a booth for the Canadian natural-resources ministry, only to be told that information on openings was best found on the ministry’s website. “I’d have preferred to do the whole thing by e-mail,” he grumbles. Such was his frustration that he settled instead for a small non-profit group specialised in recycling. 他好不容易排到了加拿大自然资源部的展位前，却被告知空余职位的信息最好去部门的网站上查。“早知道我就拿e-mail搞定了”他抱怨道。这样的囧事让他最终选择了一家小型专注于回收再利用的非营利组织。 At a time when many administrations in the rich world face a looming talent shortage, because a huge cohort of civil servants is about to retire, anyone would think that governments would be trying harder, and in cleverer ways, to scoop up bright students now leaving college. 当前，许多发达国家政府机构都因为大批公务员即将退休而面临着人才短缺的威胁，大家自然都认为政府们会更尽力、更聪明地去招徕应届的高材生们。 It is not simply a matter of replacing one set of mandarins with another: in an age when most policy issues (from climate change to migration) cut across ministries and state boundaries, the civil servants of tomorrow will have to be lateral thinkers, not pen-pushers. And for better or worse, the outcome of the global recession will be closer regulation of the world’s economic and financial systems, for years to come. 但这并不是一代新人换旧人那么简单：在这样一个绝大多数政策决定（从气候变暖到移民政策）都需要顾及到多个部门及国家的时代，未来的公务员必须能跨界思考，而不是再只是文书人员。况且虽然还前途未卜，但这次全球经济衰退必将在今后几年带来对全球经济和金融体系更严格的监管。 Especially in the English-speak